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Just in time for Christmas, Philadelphia has suffered yet another water main break, this one causing major flooding and school closures. It seems like every […]
Update: 11:41 am Philly.com reports: “A number of Philadelphia schools were closing at 11:30 a.m. due to the water main break, the school district said. […]
Here are a select few SEPTA etiquette tips from the good people of Reddit.
The Milken Institute has released its annual list of ‘best performing cities.’ Here’s how they came up with the ranking, per Richard Florida of the […]
A. Charles Peruto Sr.—a legendary Philadelphia lawyer who was father to Chuck Jr., the flamboyant attorney—has died.
A few months ago, toward the end of the summer, I was walking my dog near my house in East Kensington when my neighbor Franky […]
Philadelphia, squirrel pioneer. A paper by Penn’s Etienne Benson investigates the proliferation of squirrels in American cities, and finds that they are in no way indigenous […]
There was a beautifully written piece published in The New York Times on December 9th that painted a very poignant, solemn, and frustrating picture of […]
The Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities has unveiled a new chart showing that Philadelphia’s commute times are relatively short compared to other major […]
The story was so startling that I thought it had to be a parody — even though it was on the front page of the […]
Rock-climbing has always seemed hairy to me. But rock-climbing while cars and buses and 18-wheelers zoom by beneath your boots seems really hairy, which is […]
Let me share this here, before you all inevitably do so on your Facebook walls. BuzzFeed has created a list of the “21 Things You’re […]
A Running-of-the-Santas fatality occurred this weekend. Herr, 24, of Lebanon, Pa., was in Philadelphia for the annual Running of the Santas on Saturday when somehow, […]